2012 VBS - Whittier Style!

We used last year's VBS shirts, since we only had 3 of same size.

Youth Group of Filipino BC helping lead the music fun.

We had a great turnout of 28 children and youth total for the week!  The town only had 38 kids enrolled in the public school from preschool to high school.  We also had parents come to participate and watch.  Also, internationals came to check out VBS.  We used 3 rooms to do VBS.  This summer we had volunteer teachers and helpers.  Thank-You to all the churches in the area that sent supplies our way, offered to give us what they had, and for sending teachers/helpers. Thank-You to Mike P. and Mr. David G. for getting the word out that we needed VBS supplies.  It is awesome how the Body of Christ works together!  The Whittier kids and everyone enjoyed it!

Celebrating One Year in Whittier!

May 29, 2011 we moved to Whittier.  It was not planned on our part, an open door from God that came up fast & unexpectedly.  When God makes it happen, you'll know.  Cuz it will be fast and He expects you to act and respond quickly too!  Lest, you miss the blessing of opportunity the first time.  It all started two weeks before Easter Sunday of 2011.  We were excited for our first Easter celebration festivities with our new Alaska home church - Filipino Bible Church (which we have been attending for 11 months).  We were shopping at Wal-Mart when we get a miss call from Mike - The state convention dude.  K listens to his voicemail and has that "Oh, man what does he want me to do?"  Come to find out, K had been asked by Mike to go help out a pastor-less church in anchorage, but K turned him down.  This is also the same Mike that K turned down Alaska with his first email from Va.  So K decides to call Mike back, and sure enough...Mike was asking K if he could go down to this small rural church in Whittier to do their Easter Sunday Service.  Mike got a call from the church secretary/treasurer that they needed someone for Easter Sunday.  And K was the last person Mike called.  Everyone else was busy or unavailable.  So K hesitantly says, "All right, I'll go".  So we went to Whittier on Easter Sunday.  It was K's first time to do an Easter Service, he was nervous.  Then afterwards the 3 core members asked all of us to come back every Sunday.  And we did for a couple more Sundays.  Then finally they asked us to stay and be their full-time Pastor family.  And we said, "Yes".

Thawing from our 2nd and most extreme winter in Alaska

Howdy Friends!  Decided to update our blog.  Sorry it's been a year since I've written on here.  Well, we find ourselves celebrating our thawing from our second winter, but the most extreme winter we've ever experience in our lives!  Our new town had over 500 inches of snow! Yes, that's over 43 feet of snow, from October to middle of May! Also, we are celebrating our church's many profession of faith. The winter’s isolation gave us a captive audience. We hit it hard with evangelism and discipeling! Most of our profession of faith were the children and youth, they were the most receptive. At least 15 of them asked Jesus into their hearts, 2 adults are very close.

The playground with monkey bars is underneath All that Snow!  It's taller than the snow plow!

The children having fun boogie boarding and sledding down the snow dune at end of April at 8:00p.m.

Wife and friend having fun trying to jump as high as the snow dune.

Going on my first snowmobile ride...Alot of snowmobilers come to our town in winter to go riding up to the Glaciers on the mountain peaks.  Not brave enough to do that yet, I stayed on leveled ground.

Our son with Joey.

We had to dig out our car (the small one).

You could stand on the top of the snow dune and literally touch the top of the lightpost!

Our beautiful winter view.

Our town all covered in snow, see our building blends in well....
Our good friend Max named us "The Frozen Chosen"...Lolz!  (it fits :)

We did a baptism class on May 18 for those who already signed up to be baptized. K bought a 6 by 10 ft. swimming pool from Wal-Mart, for our 1st Baptism to take place in the basement church.  We are planning another baptism class this summer for those who are waiting and hopefully more will sign up. Thank-You to Eagle River Baptist Church for letting us borrow your robes.

Yes, this is our baptismal!  May 20 was our 1st baptism service.  We warned those sitting in the front that you sit there at your own risk of getting splashed!  Lolz!

Afterwards we let the kids play in the pool.  They were playing "Marco Polo".   

Another reason to celebrate is that after putting it off for 2 years, K finally submitted to God’s will of becoming ordained. To God Be the Glory! He endured an intense interrogation from fellow Namb workers, pastors, dom, and state convention staffs. Total of 8 were on the ordination council to interrogate! Afterwards, it took them another hour to pray, discuss, and decide. He was glad they didn’t make it easy. What a wonderful testimony to our Lord’s faithfulness, love, and power!
Now we are getting ready for our summer ministry.  And we are looking forward to some friends from our partner churches visiting us this summer to encourage. As Prayer Warriors in The Body of Christ, you are much needed! Thank-You!